Mirror matter admixtures in K_L to mu^+ mu^-

Abstract

Our previous analysis on the contributions of mirror matter admixtures in ordinary hadrons to K_L to gamma gamma is extended to study the relevance of such contributions to the K_L to mu^+ mu^- rare decay. The mixing angle of the admixtures previously determined to describe the enhancement phenomenon in two body non-leptonic decays of strange hadrons is used, along with recent results for the description of the strong and electromagnetic interaction parts of the transition amplitudes. We find that these admixtures give a significant contribution with a small SU(3) breaking of only 2.8%, we also find a value of \sim -17.9^{\circ} for the eta-eta' mixing angle consistent with some of its determinations in the literature and a preferred negative value around -16 for the local counter-term contribution chi_1 + chi_2 consistent with the existence of a unique counter-term assuming lepton universality. We conclude that those mixings may be relevant in low energy physics and should not be ignored.

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